{"id":23262,"date":"2022-11-18T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=23262"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:43:57","slug":"environmental-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/undergraduate\/majors\/environmental-studies","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"top\">BACHELOR OF ARTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph-grey-background\">On this page: <a href=\"#major\">Major Description<\/a> | <a href=\"#learning-objectives\">Learning Objectives<\/a> | <a href=\"#degree\">Degree Planning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph has-gold-200-color has-text-color has-link-color has-h-4-font-size wp-elements-e0b0d718bb295b93f8d29c6ee5a90e99\" id=\"major\"><strong>Are you interested in blending environmental science, policy, and cultural perspectives to better understand environmental challenges? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph has-gold-200-color has-text-color has-link-color has-h-4-font-size wp-elements-faa318834146ed38bc285121e03fbdf2\" id=\"major\"><strong>Do courses like&nbsp;<em>Environmental Justice<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>Art &amp; Climate Change<\/em>&nbsp;sound exciting to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p>The <strong>Environmental Studies<\/strong> major at the University of Washington Bothell offers students the opportunity to examine how organizations and societies interact with natural environments. Academic and other learning experiences enhance students\u2019 ability for project management and increases their skills in critical thinking, data analysis, research, communication, and decision-making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n    <div class=\"responsive-embed widescreen\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UW Bothell Environmental Studies Program\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0_CWyIx6Src?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/div>\n\n    \n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-h-3-font-size\">PURPOSE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph-grey-background\">Environmental Studies&nbsp; students are passionate about understanding how humans interact with the natural world. Instead of spending more time on lab science work, they take classes in policy, law, philosophy, cultural studies, and economics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-h-3-font-size\">PRACTICE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph-grey-background\">Courses in the&nbsp;Environmental Studies&nbsp;major allow students to collect data, perform research, and use geospatial technology to analyze how individuals, organizations, and societies add to the complex challenges facing the sustainability of Earth\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-h-3-font-size\">PROFESSION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph-grey-background\">Graduates in the Environmental Studies major communicate about urgent environmental issues facing our communities and help solve complex global problems in career roles such as education, advocacy, and consulting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"learning-objectives\"><a id=\"objectives\" name=\"objectives\"><\/a>Learning objectives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">The Environmental Studies curriculum advances the five core IAS <a href=\"\/ias\/undergraduate\/learning-objectives\">learning objectives<\/a>. Students taking courses in Environmental Studies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Develop a broad and interdisciplinary understanding of Earth\u2019s natural and cultural systems at both bioregional and global scales.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Engage multiple ways of knowing to develop interdisciplinary skills and approaches to environmental practice, and strengthen collective and individual leadership toward an environmental career.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Analyze and synthesize diverse forms of knowledge to bring a holistic understanding to bear on issues of environmental policy, management, and other social and cultural forms of human-environment interactions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Explore how dominant narratives have shaped how environmental efforts are approached today, and how integration of different ways of knowing and doing can reconstruct environmental goals to be responsive to environmental justice, environmental integrity, and the rights of all species. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Learn to collaborate in creatively addressing complex real-world environmental problems through cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary approaches.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-purple-400-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dd039ef07b2213133a62375b882aa7c4 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a id=\"faculty\" name=\"faculty\"><\/a>Contacts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/staff\">Jennifer Cabarrus<\/a><br>Lab Manager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.lib.uw.edu\/prf.php?account_id=102864\">Penelope Wood<\/a><br>Research Librarian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph-grey-background has-purple-400-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8ebe2e36567b34d8dc338104aee1c828\">Please contact the Environmental Studies Faculty Coordinator if you have any questions, concerns or ideas about the Environmental Studies major.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"degree\">Plan your degree<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:37px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plan your career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACHELOR OF ARTS On this page: Major Description | Learning Objectives | Degree Planning Are you interested in blending environmental science, policy, and cultural perspectives to better understand environmental challenges? 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